http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/srodnes/RVID/kenny-smith-language-evolution
The video from this website is a very basic concept. The way we have learned language basically is from the people around us. As new generations go on, some language is changed and modified as new generations evolve. Language changes with the economy and people around us.
This video doesn't mention anything about language and the internet. Though as I was watching this, I thought about how language can be so much more easily altered when the internet is added into the mix. If you have, say 500 friends on Facebook (considering that some may be out of state), you are being exposed to 500 different ways to express language through different phrases, words, languages, etc. If you are living in Arizona and a friend lives out of state in New York, you may hear them say a phrase you have never heard of. You go online to see what it means. You like the phrase, and start using it. Maybe you post the new word/phrase as one of your Facebook statuses and then your 500 friends are exposed to it. Maybe a ripple effect occurs and all of a sudden this new phrase from a different state is now popular in Arizona. I feel like with the new uses of internet and social media, people are able to see different ways to express language from different areas. It seems easier now a days to open your eyes to different cultures and languages because it is so accessible. YouTube videos give us this advantage. Punch in any language or subject of your liking through this site and bam! There it is! The same goes for Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, etc. Social media spreads different languages and phrases through Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and so many other sites. What an easy way to see other languages and diverse ways to communicate through the internet.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Blog #5
http://ehis.ebscohost.com.libproxy.gc.maricopa.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=45828758-0ccb-491d-9743-0fe447568c5d%40sessionmgr114&vid=8&hid=102
^^ I do not expect you to go to this link and read this entire article because it is a long one for sure. I basically read the synopsis of this article titled "Signs of Their Times". This article goes over deaf community and how they are perceived to the hearing world. This goes on to say that deaf people have been treated as dumb and with disrespect for countless years. Until 25 years ago, deaf people were considered handicapped and hearing people were trying to find "the cure" for their "disability". I think we can all say that obviously being deaf is nothing more than the absence of hearing and using an alternate method to communicate with others. Yes, deaf community and culture do differ from hearing culture. Yes, life as a deaf man/woman is harder because they have to intermingle with these foreign people that they don't know how to communicate with. And yes, communication and overall way of life is different. But we are all people! Why is it that for so long people didn't understand that deaf people are just like everybody else?! I feel that technology was not advanced enough for people to even know their children couldn't hear. Maybe people put them into the "mentally retarded" category because the child couldn't respond to sound. Or maybe people correlated lack of communication with loss in the brain. I don't know. But overall, my opinion on deaf society is that people should not try to force hearing on these people. They were born a certain way for a reason. Yes, dominant society is hearing, but there are many parts of the world who have a different way of living. I don't see being deaf as any sort of loss, but rather a new opportunity to show us hearing people how beautiful language can be.
^^ I do not expect you to go to this link and read this entire article because it is a long one for sure. I basically read the synopsis of this article titled "Signs of Their Times". This article goes over deaf community and how they are perceived to the hearing world. This goes on to say that deaf people have been treated as dumb and with disrespect for countless years. Until 25 years ago, deaf people were considered handicapped and hearing people were trying to find "the cure" for their "disability". I think we can all say that obviously being deaf is nothing more than the absence of hearing and using an alternate method to communicate with others. Yes, deaf community and culture do differ from hearing culture. Yes, life as a deaf man/woman is harder because they have to intermingle with these foreign people that they don't know how to communicate with. And yes, communication and overall way of life is different. But we are all people! Why is it that for so long people didn't understand that deaf people are just like everybody else?! I feel that technology was not advanced enough for people to even know their children couldn't hear. Maybe people put them into the "mentally retarded" category because the child couldn't respond to sound. Or maybe people correlated lack of communication with loss in the brain. I don't know. But overall, my opinion on deaf society is that people should not try to force hearing on these people. They were born a certain way for a reason. Yes, dominant society is hearing, but there are many parts of the world who have a different way of living. I don't see being deaf as any sort of loss, but rather a new opportunity to show us hearing people how beautiful language can be.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Blog #4
^^ I thought that this little drawing this was sort of funny, but very true. This doesn't have to do with one-on-one speaking to individuals; but has to do with the evolution of communication through technological methods. Look at the first picture. In the beginning, people could only transmit information through person to person. (Obviously this can still be done). But as the pictures go on, more and more ways make it more effective to get the message across. You can write things to people, which in turn lead to mailing the information, which eventually led to calling, which finally ended up with computers. Computers can be linked to e-mail, Facebook, internet, BLOGS, Skype, etc. This picture is considerably old because they left out cell phones and the means of texting and getting almost all computer information onto that tiny little smart phone to communicate. It is absolutely insane looking at the way technology has changed society. In my opinion, I feel it has hindered communication skills among people. It is so easy to get on your phone when you are in an awkward situation and tune the people around you out. If someone is uncomfortable, VROOM! Get on that smart phone and show the people around you that you are needed somewhere else and do belong with a certain group. Yes, phones are a great way of communicating and reaching people in necessary situations who are far away. But I personally feel that people are too involved in people who are away from them, rather than the people who are with them at that very moment. People need to learn to have the strength to live without texting somebody for an hour's college class.
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